Originals vs Copies – The “Salad Tastes Good” Joke

An eye-catching picture at the head of a blog post. It’s the done thing. But where do these pictures come from? Well, like pretty much everything else on the Internet, some are originals, created by the author or an accomplice, whilst others are simply copies of pre-existing online content. Sometimes the copies are re-posted with the creator’s permission, and sometimes they’re just stolen. This image is an original, taken by the author of the post, but would you have known or cared if it wasn’t?

11 Twitter Mistakes That Will Immediately Get You Muted

In 2014, Twitter changed. Ever since, it’s been possible to do something which at face value sounds insane. It’s been possible to pretend to follow people on Twitter. It takes three clicks. Click Follow, click the User Actions cog, click Mute. Job done; you’re pretending to follow someone.

Top Ten Best Ever Free WordPress.com Themes

Although this is a list based on personal opinion rather than actual popularity stats, it doesn’t come without a lot of experimentation and use. With new themes arriving all the time, it’s getting harder and harder to unearth the real gems among the baffling range of options, and there are plenty of great current themes in this rundown. But the post shouldn’t be read purely as a “what to use” guide. It’s really a celebration of ten design icons from the full history of WordPress.com.

Three of the celebrated themes are no longer available for new blogs, but they were true greats in their day, and they add historical interest to an otherwise contemporary collection. The rest of the list comprises themes which any WP user can select straight from their Theme Options screen at the time of writing.

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How To Find EVERYTHING on the Internet

Google is so simple… IF you want what everyone else wants. The world’s favourite search engine has made its fortune second-guessing every phrase you type into it. No matter what you actually want, Google will use its giant, virtual brain to make a judgement on what most people would want, and then give you that content. By default, Google doesn’t simply search for what you type. It searches for what it thinks you mean.

This is actually a huge problem, because whilst for very typical searches, most of the time Google will be right; for more unusual searches, it’s likely to be wrong a high proportion of the time. And not just wrong – very wrong.